As far as I know, our server is running lightly slower than normal, because the Internet seems to be running slower than normal. It could be some delay happening in the route between the Pet of the Day server and your mail server. People are always having spam problems these days, and that can slow down an individual ISP - someone else here was having that problem, then her ISP fixed something and she got a ton of emails!

catnapper - definitely if someone clears the cookies from a machine, you'd have to log in again. Cookies are how the site keeps track of who you are!